RE: [Axiom-developer] B#

[Bill Page]

On November 21, 2005 10:30 AM I wrote:

> ... 
> I think of B# as first of all generalizing 'Expression' so that
> all of the computations that a user is likely to want to do can
> be done entirely within that one domain - just as if they were
> calculating using Maple or Mathematica. And then simplifying
> the syntax and semantics of the Spad language so that it always
> implicitly refers to this generalized domain. And there is some
> syntactic sugar to add to make this all a little sweeter.
> 
> It seems to me that Boot is too low a level at which to build
> such a language. And further it does seem to make a lot of sense
> to me to think of this as a "stand alone" language. I think it
> must be built on top of the Axiom library, not beneath it or in
> parallel with it. This means that B# should be written in Spad.
> 

I intended to write:

> And further it does *not* seem to make a lot of sense to me to
> think of this as a "stand alone" language.

Regards,
Bill Page.